Permitted And Prohibited Desires (Mothers, Comics, And Censorship In Japan) - Anne Allison

Erect-nippled, cartoonish breasts floating, like clouds, across a children’s television program; sexually explicit scenes of rape and brutality mainstreamed in mass-marketed, highly accessible comic books for both children and adults; food in children’s lunch boxes meticulously sculpted to look like Zen monks (hard-boiled egg) or octopuses (wieners